Wanna follow Matt Duchene and get his 140-character insights on life? Well, now you can.
Dutchy has created a Twitter account – Matt9Duchene – which you can follow by clicking here. As of this post, he has 221 followers. I’m betting it’s going to be a few more by morning.

Today, the 19-year-old offered an update on his afternoon, with “By the pool in FLA… Lovin life.” And “Just noticed I have a spike in followers… What upppp?! haha I appreciate the support, I created this to connect with you guys so enjoy!”

The Avs are an organ-i-zation that likes to keep a pretty tight lid on unfiltered comments from players to the public, so this is a good sign that they are embracing the year 2010.

If Dutchy doesn’t have 5,000 followers by the end of the week, I’ll be shocked.

So far, Dutchy is following 10 people. Four of them – Darren Dreger, Pierre LeBrun, Bob McKenzie and James Duthie – are hockey media people. I have not qualified for the list yet. I am going to go bury my face in a towel now and have a good cry.

Terry Frei graduated from Wheat Ridge High School in the Denver area and has degrees in history and journalism from the University of Colorado-Boulder. He worked for the Rocky Mountain News while attending CU and joined the Post staff after graduation. He has also worked at the Oregonian in Portland, Ore., and The Sporting News. His seventh book, March 1939: Before the Madness, was issued in February 2014.

Chambers covers college and professional hockey for The Denver Post. He has written for the Post since 1994, after dumping his first 9-to-5 office job a couple years out of college. He primarily follows the University of Denver hockey team and helps cover the Avalanche.